SITE OF SODDOM
LOCATED NEAR. DEAD SEA
[United Press Association—By Electric-Telegraph.-^Copyright.]
JERUSALEM, December 31
The Pontifical Biblical Institute’s excavations have resulted in the discovery the site of Soddom, one of the Cities of the Plain, mentioned in Genesis.
The remains are situated in the east ern Plain of Jordan, approximately five miles north of the Dead Sea, and they contain pottery and other articles showing the city was built early in the bronze ago. Therefore it was more ancient than Jericho, but it was possessed of an advanced type of civilisation.
The excavations prove the city was destroyed by a great fire, and remained uninhabtfed* since,
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1930, Page 6
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